Women, Families, and Communities, Volume II, from 1865: Readings in American History (Women, Families & Communities from 1865)

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Women, Families, and Communities "A student review"

Women, Families, and Communities, Volume II, from 1865: Readings in American History (Women, Families & Communities from 1865)
Nancy A. Hewitt
Manufacturer: Longman
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ASIN: 0673188604

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Excellent Readings providing womens' contexts to history.......2002-06-10

Hewitt's Women, Families and Communities provides an excellent survey showing important female contributions to American culture and history. Yes it has open ended questions. History is not merely names dates and issues. Any student of history who thinks that all answers are definitive misunderstands the historical dialogue. Hewitt provides questions which can guide the student in developing analytical skills in discussing the readings. I have used this text in several survey courses and female students who could not relate to the top down male dominated history frequently covered in primary texts, came to life in discussing these readings. This book of readings will not provide a comprehensive history, not even a comprehensive women's history. It does provide contextual resources which, when used with a primary text, provides insights into everyday life, family life and the significant role of women throughout America's history

Women, Families, and Communities "A student review".......2002-04-28

I have just finished reading this book for a Modern History class at Kent State University. I found the book to be very poorly written , it is not a book that I would reccomend. If you are an educator and are thinking of using this as a resource in your classroom, think again. The questions for study and review at the end of each chapter are very open ended and hard to answer precisely. My first reaction was to say that "The person who wrote questions, did not read the book!!". A quick poll of students in the class revealed that everyone has essentially the same opinion, including the instructor. I have read many similar text and this is by far the worst of the lot. ...

Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940--1965

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Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940--1965
Xiaojian Zhao
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Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

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Captures a lost era
Oral History at Its Best

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall , James Leloudis , Robert Korstad , Mary Murphy , and and Christopher B. Daly Lu Ann Jones
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ASIN: 0807848794
Release Date: 2000-07-26

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Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history.

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Captures a lost era.......2002-09-23

Like a Family interestingly and accurately portrays life in southern cotton mills and mill towns in the central southeast, primarily North Carolina. The book examines family, work and community life; it is a social, cultural and political history. Working in the mills was harsh, dangerous and monotonous. Most employees left farms and a rural way of life to toil in the mills; for these people living under the constant eye of mill management was humiliating at times. The mills controlled not only the worker's jobs, but their housing, churches, schools, entertainment and shopping through company stores. It is important to note that this book does not leave out women's perspectives, as many mill workers were young women and working mothers.

A great deal of the content of this book was provided by interviews done in the 1980's of people who worked in the mills and lived in mill communities. This oral history is both fascinating and priceless. Most of the mills have closed and the memory and history of them is becoming scarcer to find as most of the mill workers who lived during the era portrayed in this book have died.

While most of the mills have closed, central North Carolina is dotted with the communities that are remains of old mill towns. I am from this region and my mother lives in Bynum, NC, a mill town dating from the mid-19th century. Several of her neighbors were interviewed for and written about in Like a Family. The old company store still serves as a post office and the mill community's church has regular worshipers. Unfortunately the rest of the community from the mill days, including the mill itself (which closed in the early 1980's and has burned down recently), have succumbed to time and aging from the elements.

Oral History at Its Best.......2000-04-20

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and the other writers of _Like a Family_ created a tour-de-force study of cotton mill towns in the American South. It is a very rare book that captures such a clear, complex sense of history; Hall balances a careful sense of detail with a sweeping picture of life in the cotton-mill South by using a combination of oral and written sources. This book is perfect for scholars and non-scholars alike, and richly conjures a full picture of this period in American history.

Person and Community: Selected Essays (Catholic Thought from Lublin, Vol 4)

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Great Ethics Lectures!
Bridging the Gap...

Person and Community: Selected Essays (Catholic Thought from Lublin, Vol 4)
Pope John Paul II
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Great Ethics Lectures!.......2005-02-08

Indeed, Wojtyla, now Pope John Paul II, is one of the most influential philosophers from the twentieth century. This book is a compilation of lectures Wojtyla gave while he was at that institution--Lublin. The book takes you through a historical perspective of Ethics : from Plato to St Thomas Aquinas and from Descartes to Scheller. This is an excellent book for anyone as it strives to point you to the answers of questions such as what is ethics? what is good and bad? What is the importance of a person? etc. The book also gives you excellent points to the source. The index is excellent and the introduction is a good one as well. Excellent for reasing and reference!

Bridging the Gap..........2003-05-14

In these lectures and essays, Pope John Paul bridges a gap between the metaphysical and the subjective. Here the Pope begins to develop a consistent treatment of the human person through upholding the objective and metaphysical foundations established in such philosophers as Thomas Aquinas while turning to the human person's subjectivity in experience as the irreducible foundation of examining the nature of man. The Pope uses the tools of phenemenology to complement and deepen the metaphyiscal foundations of human nature, ultimately revealing personhood.

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On August 15, 1947, the day of India's independence from Britain, Ram Dass and his family were Untouchables--lowest of the low in an apparently unchanging caste system, landless serfs bonded to a feudal village lord in a remote part of Uttar Pradesh deep in the heart of Hindu India. Fifty years later as the country celebrated its half-century of independence, Ram Dass's family still suffered poverty and oppression--this despite their efforts and despite the changes which have transformed the face of independent India. This book is their story, and the story of modern India. Told through the voices of several generations, it takes the reader on a journey into the reality of Asian poverty--the powerlessness, the sickness, the illiteracy and all the other deprivations which enmesh the poor. Gradually we learn to understand not simply the human reality of what it means to be poor, but also the central paradox of modern India: half a century of democracy, economic growth and constitutional commitment to social justice has not lessened the acute, mass poverty of the country. This vivid account draws its readers into an unforgettable understanding not just of the personal experience of poverty but of the intractable reasons for its continuance.

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Excellent, thought-provoking and moving. A real eye-opener........1998-09-09

This is a work in the genre of Orwell's "Down and out in Paris and London." Immensely readable, despite the very serious nature of the work, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in development issues, untouchablity and in learning about how it must be to live in abject poverty. Kudos to the author for this fine contribution to the few works that exist on the subject.

Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930 (Studies in Rural Culture)

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See The Exotic Farmer In His Native Environment

Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930 (Studies in Rural Culture)
Hal S. Barron
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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ASIN: 0807846597
Release Date: 1997-10-01

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Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. According to Hal S. Barron, country people from New England to North Dakota negotiated the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer culture in ways marked by both resistance and accommodation, change and continuity.

Between 1870 and 1930, communities in the rural North faced a number of challenges. Reformers and professionals sought to centralize authority and diminish local control over such important aspects of rural society as schools and roads; large-scale business corporations wielded increasing market power, to the detriment of independent family farmers; and an encroaching urban-based consumer culture threatened rural beliefs in the primacy of their local communities and the superiority of country life. But, Barron argues, by reconfiguring traditional rural values of localism, independence, republicanism, and agrarian fundamentalism, country people successfully created a distinct rural subculture. Consequently, agrarian society continued to provide a counterpoint to the dominant trends in American society well into the twentieth century.

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See The Exotic Farmer In His Native Environment.......2004-11-01

Reading Barron's study of rural life makes one sympathetic to the animals on a safari tour, overhearing a guide's explanation of the savage beasts' interaction with their native environment. A fascinating and well-documented history, it is nonetheless an outsider's view; the perspective of a man who considered himself a coastal resident even while attending Oberlin College. (Or so Barron's class reunion report on Oberlin's webpage suggests.)

Barron's society, even while in transformation, is sharply delineated between farm, village, and city populations, each with its own set of needs and unique social values. In spite of the collection of case histories, the individual is entirely absent from Barron's work, as people in his history act exclusively as representatives of their communities.

In Barron's safari tour, rural people are prey, and the predators are much sexier. Every new institution, from the graded school to the farmers' grain cooperative, is either forced from the outside or a response to threats. The farmers, he constantly suggests, are only interested in preserving the values and lifestyle of the past, even begrudging students the new-fangled invention of clean toilets. When farmers do accept modern convenience it is because they are lured by shiny things - mantle clocks or free movie tickets - rather than because they believe in the need for change. Although agricultural cooperatives, good roads, and consolidated schools improved the quality of rural life, Barron never suggests that improvement was desired or planned by those involved.

Ironically, the transformed society is now traditional. Barron's book, in a sense, is a collection of "just-so" stories, explaining the origins of the Farm Bureau or the small-town social gathering. The "cruising" teenagers of Vincennes, Indiana may be alien to Barron, but they have their roots in the great transformation of the 1920s. And here is its appeal in the Midwest: it's the opportunity for the lion to step out of the safari park and say, "oh, that's what's going on!"

But Barron is writing about people, not lions, and yet his people behave more instinctively than rationally. He constantly refers to "unadorned, agrarian virtues," without ever explaining the virtues, or how they guide decisions. Fear of change seems to be the farmer's only motivation. The outsiders are either benevolent experts or fierce competitors, but only they display the capacity for rational planning rather than response. A Midwestern reader, or one from the rural north, may read Barron's work and enjoy the history, but I fear that readers from larger cities will be left looking on farmlands and their residents as exotic, backward, marginalized, and very, very, different.

Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800 (Studies in Legal History)

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Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800 (Studies in Legal History)
Eileen Spring
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ASIN: 0807846422
Release Date: 1997-02-05

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Eileen Spring presents a fresh interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. In a work that recasts both the history of real property law and the history of the family, she finds that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class real property inheritance was the exclusion of females. This exclusion was accomplished by a series of legal devices designed to nullify the common-law rules of inheritance under which—had they prevailed—40 percent of English land would have been inherited or held by women.

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This important translation looks at World War I from the perspective of German working-class women. The author demonstrates the intimate connection between 'general' social history and women's history while analyzing the dynamics between these different levels of interpretation. She asks:

- How did women view the war and whom did they hold responsible for it?
- How did military leaders and politicians perceive women at work, in the home, and
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This book explores the ways in which the people themselves interpreted their world and their lives -- a perspective often neglected by historians but one becoming increasingly relevant in Germany today. Essential reading for all those interested in War Studies, German Studies, History and Women's Studies and an excellent text for course use.

Being Me and Also Us: Lessons from the Peckham Experiment

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Being Me and Also Us: Lessons from the Peckham Experiment
Alison Stallibrass
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